On 3/15/2013 11:02 PM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
Actually, to make this sort of vaguely on-topic, there
may have been
some carry-over from the low-emission/low-power design lessons learned
from those tubes to the design of VFDs.
I allways thought that the VFD tube layout would have made a NOR gate tube
had that idea been developed in the 1950's.
Ben